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HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS!

ALRIGHT, LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go wild with speculation, folks

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Excited this seems to take place on Meleé Island, judging by the website. That was always my favorite location. I just hope it feels cluttered with houses and buildings, and not as wide and spacey as it felt in MI4

So the greatest thing is it's going to begin immediately where MI2 left off, as officially stated by Devolver Digital. Can this get any better?!

Previous thread: https://forums.mixnmojo.com/topic/200421-grumpy-gamer-april-fools/ Ron's fake April Fool blog post: https://grumpygamer.com/april_fools_2022 The tweet: Ron's old blog post about what he'd do with a MI3a: https://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland

Let’s make a new thread so this isn’t forever the grumpy gamer April fools thread. also hell yes.

The best new of this year by far. The 14 year old in me is jumping for joy right now 4 hours later. I'm 46 now but I still love this game and this Monkey 🐒 🙈 🙊 Island 🏝 series . I'm going to play the classics until this game is out 😁🍺👍🍀

Extremely excited and finally something good after these hellish years. I am ready, unleash the monkey.

🥲

Well, this is an out of the blue surprise! I remember the "drop everything I'm doing" moment I had when Tales was announced in 2009. This felt the same. I've had lingering feelings for a while that something may be going on (i.e. cryptic tweets from the team of "yeah, it'd be great to do more" etc) and not to mention the occasional prophetic dream I had that always felt real when I was in it! But I've always dismissed the possibility of a new game given how many years have passed, since this is by far the longest hiatus the series has had, etc. But it looks like something was able to be worked out! Hopefully soon we'll get some answers on if this is completely Ron's game or if other hands are involved. It really seems like we're getting the best of all worlds in regards to the team as well. Land, McConnell and Bajakian being onboard means that we're likely going to get another soundtrack with the production values of Curse and Escape. That alone is reason enough to be excited. No disrespect to Tales, as it had a lot of fantastic compositions in it, but the synthesised instruments didn't always do justice to them. (I also wish Land/McConnell and Bajakian could've had a bigger hand in the SE soundtracks too for the sake of consistency, but I was still very happy with what we got!) A new Monkey Island OST with them, however, means it has the potential to reach the level of Curse and Escape's soundtracks. Not to mention, a new recording of the main theme? Escape simply re-used Curse's theme, so after 25 years, we'll finally have a new version... Thrilled that Dom is back, and Denny Delk is a welcome surprise too given how many years have passed, but one that I would never suggest recasting. Would love to know who, if anybody else, they manage to get back from the other games too (British Elaine, Herman Toothrot, MI1-3 Stan, etc.) . The big question mark, in my opinion, is Earl Boen. His performance as LeChuck across the whole series is utterly perfect (and upon replaying the series over the Christmas holidays, I've made the decision that he's one of the most perfectly cast voices I've ever heard in a game) but in reality, the guy is 80 years old and has been retired for a while now. His most recent voiceover credit, according to Wikipedia, was 2017. So based on that, maybe there's a slim chance, but I wouldn't be shocked if LeChuck was recast for this game, or even if Boen decided to decline to return. Which is completely understandable, of course, given his age, but at the same time, something really would be missing if we didn't have him. I really hope they've worked out a good solution in terms of the voice of LeChuck. The art style is different, yet familiar, yet retro, yet modern, yet good! It's 2D, which I feel like people would flip out if it wasn't(!) and seems to have a more immersive feeling in the sense that the background moves, the elements are on different planes, etc. Something I wish the Special Editions could've taken more advantage of at times. Very curious to see how the rest of the games visuals shape up and how the main characters might look in this new art style. That's all I have to say for now! Sorry, but this called for a rant!

Time will tell, but I don't see how they can be careful to keep CMI canon AND set it after MI2 (unless he goes down the multiverse route, I guess?). Or he does something insane and meta and the game ends in the real world with someone playing CMI. Either way, this is a great find from Utwarrior: Yes, he's talking about the man he hired to do the visuals for Return to MI, Rex Crowle, back in 2009. Here's his take on Guybrush... a preview of what's to come? https://hairyteeth.blogspot.com/2009/07/guybrush-threepwood.html

Just to keep these chronicled here: https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/1511022135191384067?s=20&t=3O0ZuBItnt2aH0bYMdTzvw

Ha. Sorry. It's a bit of blur at the moment! I just found it.

AND TITS ‘N ASS TOO!!! (pardon my French.) I’m so over the moon right now! I can’t begin to describe how psyched I am!!! Holy hell, I never expected this!!!

Oh look, a reason to play MI 1 and 2 again! I was very late to the party for these games, but the story is one of my all time favorites. Excited to see how they follow up MI2.

Sorry for double posting, but who cares, too excited! Please note the Gov. Mansion:

Done!

Seriously I'm not ashamed to say this is one of the happiest days in my whole life!!!!! Party on folks!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am deleriously happy right now ☺️ ☺️ ☺️

I completely dismissed it as an April Fool's joke... finally, one turns out to be real. So excited for this game!

TOLD YA IT WAS REAL!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Incredible! Written by Ron and Dave... music by Land/McConnell/Bajakian... Dom as Guybrush... and was that Denny Delk as Murray?

I guess he always assumed that making a game while NOT owning the IP would automatically result in Disney keeping some kind of creative control over it. Maybe a deal was struck that specifically granted him complete creative freedom.

If this is true then the way he announced it is utter brilliance! And it would be fan-tas-tic news! However... I'm not getting my hopes up just yet...